Chapter Twenty-Seven: Playing Mayo

I don't know if it's because he saw Carter's two consecutive offensive disadvantages, or just needed to adjust the lineup, the head coach of the Mavericks chose to make substitutions at this time, Nowitzki and Carter were replaced, and replaced with the starting center Carman and the scoring guard OJ Mayo, and Li Tian's opposite player was replaced by Carter to Mayo.

The Kings also made another change, and Thomas Robinson, who was okay in this game, came on and replaced Cousins.

Robinson's serve from outside the sideline was handed to Evans, and Li Tian had not made a shooting move just now, so the referee ruled to re-serve, rather than Li Tian directly getting a free throw.

Evans kept the ball firmly outside the three-point line, and Cousins, Thorton, and Thomas were not in this lineup, so no one would compete with him for possession.

Li Tian stood outside the three-point line and did not run, because Evans was playing with Robinson at this time, and if he ran towards the basket at this time, it would be easy to interfere with Evans' breakthrough.

With Robinson's blocking, Evans successfully rushed into the three-point line, and today's blocking and dismantling of Evans and Robinson worked very well, Robinson's cut in the middle was very lethal, so at this time Brand did not dare to distract to stop Evans, but still followed Robinson's side.

Without Brand's help, it was obviously difficult for Corlison, who had fallen into passivity, to keep up with Evans completely, and on the other side, Marion immediately stepped forward to help defend at this time.

Seeing the timing, Li Tian began to run, but instead of running to the basket, he ran from the three-point line on the left side to the top of the arc.

Evans drew Marion's defense and pushed the ball into the hands of Salmons in the bottom right corner, at which point Li Tian came to the top of the arc and followed Mayo, but Mayo was not fully attached.

Salmons received the ball, Marion quickly returned to the defense, rushed to the bottom corner, Li Tian, who was originally at the top of the arc, seemed to stop The pace suddenly accelerated, continued to run along the three-point line, and came to the right outside the three-point line, this time, he completely threw Mayo away. With the improvement of agility, Li Tian's control of his feet has become more and more comfortable.

With Marion's save on one side and Li Tian in the empty space on the other, Salmons made his choice without much consideration, and the ball that had just arrived was pushed out and delivered to Li Tian.

At this time, Mayo also reacted and rushed forward, but this obviously could not stop Li Tian's shot, and the player quickly jumped up, and Li Tian threw the ball outside the three-point line.

"Huh!" Hit!

At this time, the score had come to 74:65, and Li Tian scored 5 points in a row after coming on the court, making the difference between the two teams 9 points.

Mavericks head coach Carlisle frowned, obviously dissatisfied with Mayo's defense of the ball just now, he stood on the sidelines and shouted at Mayo on the court: "OJ, pay attention to the movement of your opposing player." ”

Mayo nodded, turned his head and glanced at Li Tianze, his brows furrowed slightly, it was obvious that he didn't feel very good about this rookie who let him be scolded.

The Mavericks attacked, and because Nowitzki was already off the court, Mayo became the main point of attack on the court, so he immediately opened his hand to ask Collison for the ball after reaching halfcourt.

Collison subconsciously wanted to push the ball over, but at first glance, he was frightened and quickly took the ball back, and then rejoiced that he did not rashly send a mistake.

"Huh?" Mayo, who was about to catch the ball, also glanced at Li Tian in front of him in surprise at this time, obviously he was surprised by Li Tian's sudden snatching up half of his body.

Li Tian grabbed half of the position and stopped Collison from passing the ball to Mayo, at this time, if Mayo was fast enough to cut to the basket, Li Tian's defense would have a headache, but such a thing did not happen, after seeing that Mayo had no chance to catch the ball, Collison passed the ball to Carman on the inside.

Carman has a good hand to respond, so he didn't rush to attack after receiving the ball, and the Mavericks' players also moved quickly at this moment.

The year the Mavericks won the championship, the impression left on the fans was that the offense was very good, and of course there was Kidd for this, but the offense that blossomed all over the team was not just a good point guard, the movement of people and the ball was also very important, and the Mavericks players obviously did a very good job of this.

Just wanted to catch the ball and attack was blocked by Li Tian, of course Mayo was not reconciled, so at this time he also quickly moved to the other side, ready to take the ball.

Mayo's off-ball running ability is not too good, he is the kind of player who needs to have the ball in hand, but the good covering ability of the rest of the Mavericks helped him at this time, and after a circle from the baseline, he shook off Li Tian slightly, and then appeared in the middle distance on the right side.

"Damn, this guy is following so closely?"

After receiving Carman's pass from mid-range, before Mayo could raise his hand, he found that he had already been pasted next to him, and Li Tian's unique oriental face made him easily recognizable.

Although he didn't play in the Grizzlies for a few years, Mayo was a former Tanhua after all, and he was a talented player in high school.

"Smack!" Before Mayo's thoughts could fully turn, there was a sudden thud, and then he felt a lightness in his hand.

With his excellent running ability and judgment skills, although Li Tian was thrown away by Mayo a little, he did not lag behind Mayo too much, after Mayo received the ball, he immediately rushed to stick, and at this time he found that the ball in Mayo's hand was completely exposed, of course Li Tian will not be polite.

At the same time as sticking to Mayo, his arm reached out, and Li Tian's hand cut directly into the ball in Mayo's hand, and then flashed to the side, flashed out from Mayo's side, and picked up the basketball on the ground.

All this happened between lightning and flint, and Mayo felt a light in his hand and realized that when the ball was out of his hand, Li Tian had already bent down to copy the ball, and it was completely impossible to stop it.

His face changed slightly, and Mayo immediately had to stick to Li Tian, who got the ball, to prevent the king from attacking.

However, Li Tian didn't give him such a chance at all, and after picking up the ball, he took a step forward, and the basketball in Li Tian's hand was quickly pushed out and sent to Evans in front, and then the person also rushed out and ran to the other half.

Carlisle has been paying attention to the team's defense, so the Mavericks' retreat speed was not slow at this time, and Evans was forced to press down the rhythm after dribbling to the half.

Li Tian took Mayo across the halfcourt and paused slightly outside the three-point line, Mayo was thinking about saying a few cruel words because of the steal just now, at this time, Li Tian suddenly started and rushed to the basket.

Mayo was forced to hold back what he was about to say, but he didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest, and ran to the basket closely, and then he could see that the rookie in front of him who came out of nowhere was not easy to deal with at all.

Li Tian and Mayo were rushing to the basket, and the two pairs of interior players in the opposite position also cut to the basket at this time, the inside line looked crowded at this time, when Li Tian rushed past Robinson's side, Mayo had to bypass the other side, but when his body rushed out of Robinson's side, there was no Li Tian in sight at all.

Stop-and-run!

When rushing to Robinson's side, Li Tian suddenly stopped and ran back to the high position, his timing was very good, at this time Mayo was busy eliminating Robinson's physical confrontation interference and went around to the side, and he didn't notice his running at all, which also made Li Tian completely empty when he returned to the high position.

"Cool!" Seeing that Mayo was still drilling in the crowd and Li Tian was returning to the vacant seat, Evans, who was dribbling the ball on the outside, couldn't help but admire, but the movement in his hand was not slow, and with a flick of one hand, the basketball flew steadily into Li Tian's hands.

Without any defensive pressure, Li Tian jumped up and shot easily after receiving the ball.

"Huh!" The basketball landed firmly in the basket and hit a two-point shot!

Li Tian, who was searching for Li Tian's figure, looked at Mayo and finally understood what was going on, his face became more and more ugly, and he finally knew that he had been tricked.

"Tick!" At this time, Carlisle, who realized that something was wrong on the sidelines, also called a timeout.

At 76:65, Li Tian scored 7 points in a row after coming on the court, and the difference between the two teams had reached 11 points at this time.

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